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Interesting Home page you have...& links too.

"In re-reading American Opinion’s coverage of the Vietnam War, I am struck by the fact that it was identified, from the first. as another no-win war, doomed from the start. From the first, it was recognized that this was the wrong war, wrong place, wrong methods, and wrong purpose. It was not the work of some nameless "they," but of individuals we have been told all along were great Americans—yet they intended from the beginning that Vietnam would be an American defeat. There is no other outcome for a no-win war."

Hearing relatives ( all graduates of the school known as WWII, Korea & even the military academies ) form the very same thoughts, I was compelled to read & wonder.

When I read a regional academic's book ( J. Evvets Haley ) A Texan Looks at Lyndon, I knew the truth could not be denied.

I worry that the corruption of the past ( & some say it continues ) may corrupt our effort in this current struggle. I say we face a Counter Crusade-one that will not end until 'they' or us are dead. They include the Russians, the Chinese, & I know not all of the others...

JBS has sharpened their focus-but their single-monded assualt on Bush is a bad thing. He may be all we have.

JBS has sharpened their focus-but their single-monded assualt on Bush is a bad thing. He may be all we have.

You're the first to notice. I'm not in the JBS, but I think Susan Huck makes some excellent observations (if not propagandist in some respects).

I put the poem (cited from Apocalypse Now) there as a reminder that Viet Nam was also a war in defense of modernism and western notions of free conscience, commerce, and intellect.

The American Revolution may yet take hold in the hearts of the Chinese and Russian people. It could spring forth in Iraq one day, too. But I fear that all of these peoples have been beaten down into submission by fear and a cult-like worship of of hatred itself for too long.

There is a certain hellbent passion for freedom that Americans have. We really do see it as living free or dying. I know it from having combat veterans in my family, although I didn't understand that until after 9/11.

Someone quoted Lincoln the other day on FR, so I might as well repeat his words now:

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, "Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum, of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838), p. 109. --A collection of Abraham Lincoln Quotes